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June 10: 1898:
Spain Declares War Against the United States.
The war lasted for 10 weeks.
After the war Spain and the USA signed the Treaty of Paris
under which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines,
& Guam to the US
for $20 million
and Cuba became a protectorate of the USA.

Dr Pop Culture USA (@drpopcultureusa.bsky.social)
June 10: 1898: Spain Declares War Against the United States. The war lasted for 10 weeks. After the war Spain and the USA signed the Treaty of Paris under which Spain ceded Puerto Rico, the Philippines, & Guam to the US for $20 million & Cuba became a protectorate of the USA.

pontiff reveals. -- in collaboration with American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami (Henry Louis Gates Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/11/magazine/pope-leo-xiv-ancestry-family-tree.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p52#a250612p52

Skip the usual warmongering posturing from the various indentured 'experts', to
“Luck and misperception played a significant role in near misses in the Cold War conflict between the US & Soviet Union, especially the Cuban missile crisis in 1962,”
“What is claimed in this SDR, and has been the rhetoric under successive governments, is that the UK’s nuclear weapons are an ‘ultimate guarantee’ against attack. But… there is no basis for claiming this level of certainty.”…

Will Britain’s nuclear strategy bring catastrophe? Experts on UK's 'dangerous gamble'
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said the UK must expand its nuclear arsenal with tactical bombs to prepare for Putin

I didn't know that Che Guevara and Jawaharlal Nehru visited Gaza, then under Egyptian administration, in 1959 and 1960 respectively.
Che's visit was important: the Palestinian resistance was keen to learn from other anti-iimperialist struggles.
Since then Cuba has reliably supported the Palestinian people, with material & political aid, most recently joining South Africa (itself liberated with Cuban help) in their anti-genocide proceedings against Israel.

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